Defend against JOINs having more than 32K columns altogether. We cannot
authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Sat, 5 Apr 2008 01:58:42 +0000 (01:58 +0000)
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Sat, 5 Apr 2008 01:58:42 +0000 (01:58 +0000)
commit140c989238685df6e2961977a1d966d7835d46b7
treec888db11b0684541a18cfec4b9b619cc4c93d2fa
parent580db4cf0b98736c66b021da578d6df372a3b01a
Defend against JOINs having more than 32K columns altogether.  We cannot
currently support this because we must be able to build Vars referencing
join columns, and varattno is only 16 bits wide.  Perhaps this should be
improved in future, but considering that it never came up before, I'm not
sure the problem is worth much effort.  Per bug #4070 from Marcello
Ceschia.

The problem seems largely academic in 8.0 and 7.4, because they have
(different) O(N^2) performance issues with such wide joins, but
back-patch all the way anyway.
src/backend/parser/parse_relation.c
src/include/access/attnum.h